The ULTIMATE QUESTION: WHY?
The Ultimate question that will be asked from you in your medical interviews is simply this:
WHY DO YOU WANT TO BE A DOCTOR?
Let me share to you this great insight I have found through days and months of searching the world wide web. I found it in the videos of The College of Medicine of Nova Southeastern University, Florida, USA. Unfortunately, the videos are down.
Luckily for you (and for me, in times of great turmoil and doubt), I have transcribed it and found it in my scribbles while I was preparing for the medical interviews.
Let me share it to you in the words of Dr. Anthony Silvagni, Dean of The College of Medicine of Nova Southeastern University, Florida, USA:
NARRATOR: Why MEDICINE?
Medicine is a very special profession. I actually perceive it as MAGIC.
When you're a doctor, people would entrust you with information and personal data that they will not share with anyone, not their parents, not their spiritual leaders, not their spouses, no one; but they will trust you. And with that trust, they will allow you with hope that you will examine their bodies in the most PROFESSIONAL WAY, looking to help them have a better quality of life and possibly the quantity of life.
In medicine, you get to be the first person to touch a new human being. To deliver a child is so magic and such an opportunity to view. To see that transition, as that child is born into a breathing, living person. You will also get to see death.
In today's world, people do not see the transition. Someone get sick, they go to the hospital, they die and you see them in the funeral homes. Your realization as a DOCTOR is that you will PARTICIPATE in that TRANSITION.
And in that transition, you will see the power and strength of some individuals have in their RELIGIOUS BELIEFS and their understanding of the fact that LIFE IS A CYCLE. With that strength and knowledge that you've gained from those people, you will help others who do not have that power, that strength or that belief and therefore help them through that transition.
All of this makes up the
MAGIC OF MEDICINE.
Find that magic. Wonderful words from Doctor Anthony Silvagni.
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